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The Henry Single Shot Shotgun is available in hardened brass or steel in 12 and 20 gauge, and .410-bore. Henry also manufactures a garden gun smoothbore in .22 long rifle, intended for pest control using only "snake shot" .22-caliber shotshells , like those commonly sold by CCI Ammunition .
The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot rifle with a lever action that was used by the British Army. It first entered service in 1871, eventually replacing the Snider–Enfield, a muzzle-loader converted to the cartridge system. Martini–Henry variants were used throughout the British Empire for 47 years.
According to firearms historian Herbert G. Houze, one man armed with a Henry rifle was the equivalent of 14 or 15 men equipped with single-shot guns. [7] Benito Juárez's forces obtained a number of Henry rifles from gun runners during their war against the French. [10]
Whilst the basic principle can be traced back to other self-ejecting rifles, such as the single-shot Harrington & Richardson Model 755 rifle, this action has since been popularized in the United Kingdom by Southern Gun Company, who manufacture with "Manually Actuated Release System" (MARS) action rifles/pistol-caliber carbines in .223, .308 ...
Over 1 million single-shot M1871 and 1.1 million magazine-fed M1871/84 'Chassepot' Fusil Modèle 1866: Single-shot rifle France: 2,000,000 Winchester Model 1200/1300/120: Pump-action shotgun United States: 1,900,000 [92] Stevens Model 87: Semi-automatic rifle 1,000,000 1,800,000 [110] Thompson submachine gun: Submachine gun 1,700,000 TT pistol
The Swinburn–Henry rifle had a barrel of 33 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (840 mm) and weighed 9 pounds (4.1 kg), with sights graduated out to 1,300 yards (1,200 m). The rifle was typically issued to infantry, it was often supplied with commercially manufactured 1875 Pattern sword bayonets, although Pattern 1871 cutlass bayonets were used with the rifles by naval volunteers.
Failure to feed (FTF) is when a firearm fails to feed the next round into the firing chamber. Failure to feed is common when the shooter does not hold the firearm firmly (known as limp wristing), when the slide is not fully cycled by the preceding round, or due to problems with the magazine. It can also be caused by worn recoil springs, buffer ...
Two forms of single-shot pistol, however, remained: single-shot derringers, and target pistols, which were essentially single-shot rifle actions cut down to pistol size. The Remington Rolling Block is perhaps the most well-known of these. As the era of single-shot rifles faded, so did these early single-shot pistols.